A variety of measures of national income and output are used in economics to estimate total economic activity in a country or region‚ including gross domestic product (GDP)‚ gross national product (GNP)‚ net national income (NNI)‚ and adjusted national income (NNI* adjusted for natural resource depletion). All are specially concerned with counting the total amount of goods and services produced within some "boundary". The boundary is usually defined by geography or citizenship‚ and may also restrict
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Chapter 1 Prices‚ Discount Factors‚ and Arbitrage STARTING WITH COUPON BONDS • Three aspects: In May 2010 the U.S. Treasury sold a bond with – a coupon rate of 2 % and – a maturity date of May 31‚ 2015 – a payment frequency of two a year‚ six months apart s of May 31‚ 2015” • This bond is called “ Coupon rate 9/5/2013 Coupon frequency‚ “s” is for “semi‐annual” L. Wu maturity 2 Cash Flow of the Bond • The unit for bond purchasing is $1‚000. • Suppose that an investor purchases $1m face
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reported dividend income of $ 4‚000 ($ 4 per share 1‚000 shares) and took a 70% dividends received deduction. 1) Have Coyote Corporation and Fox Corporation reported these transactions properly? Please explain. No they have not recorded them properly‚ according to Rev. Ruling 82-11‚ Coyote Corp. actually includes the dividend income for federal tax purposes because they are contractually entitled to receive the dividend on the date of record. Fox does not include the dividend income on their federal
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corporation must pay taxes on its profits and the shareholder may be subject to taxation on the profits paid out. This can result in greater taxation than if a corporation was not used for the business. C corporations pay taxes on profits when corporate income is distributed to owners (shareholders) in the form of dividends. This is the first taxation. The shareholders who receive dividends must also pay taxes for this distribution on their personal returns. This is the second taxation of the same money
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For the student’s convenience‚ the following material has been adapted‚ with permission‚ from Walt Disney Company’s Sleeping Beauty Bonds – Duration Analysis‚ Harvard Business School Case 9-294-083‚ Rev. July 13‚ 2000. Copyright © 1994 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. 1. What are the cash payments associated with the Sleeping Beauties? Who gets how much and when‚ per $100 of bonds issued? 2. What interest rate was used to calculate the price? 3. Next day‚ market yield
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Barack Obama’s administration has “focus[ed] all efforts” on the rising income inequality that is affecting the United States economy. Income inequality refers to the extent of unequal distribution of income across a population. According to Emmanuel Saez‚ an economics professor at UC-Berkeley‚ “U.S. income inequality has been increasing steadily since the 1970s‚” partly due to the rise of single-parent families‚ but mostly from a rise in demand for highly-educated workers following the post-industrial
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National Income National income is a sum of incomes received in a year by a nation’s factors of production for their contributions to economic activity; or a sum of wages and salaries‚ interest‚ rent‚ and profit received during a year by a nation’s factor of production. It excludes gifts‚ consumer debt‚ grants and benefits received without engaging in any productive or economic activity. National income accounting refers to the set of rules and techniques of measuring the income of the economy
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Recently‚ a term known as income inequality has been thrown around in the debate between the rich and the poor. Income inequality is the unfair and ever expanding disparity between the nation ’s highest-income households‚ and the lowest-income households. Although it ’s impossible to establish 100% equality‚ due to it being unfair to give everyone the same exact income even though certain individuals work harder than others‚ thus it should be our
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to accounting for income taxes‚ which are the cash method and the allocation method. The cash method is described as a simple and direct approach. The amount of income taxes actually paid for the year is reported on the Income Statement. The amount comes from the firm ’s income tax return and fit is not adjusted in any way. Therefore‚ the firm ’s actual transaction to record its income tax liability is the basis for the amount of the income tax expense reported on the Income Statement. The allocation
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Schooling – Research Starters Education 2008 Lubienski‚ Chris. Evaluation & Research in Education‚ 2003‚ Vol. 17 Issue 2/3‚ p167-178‚ 12p Phillips‚ Kerri‚ Homebound Education- Research Starters Education‚ 2008 http://www.homeschoolingexplained.com/disadvantages-of-homeschooling.asp http://www.homeschoolingfordummy.com/the_pros_and_cons_of_home_schooling.php http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp http://www.educationbug.org/a/public-school-vs-home-school.html
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